How to Cheat in Chess - Hikaru Reacts

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[AlephThree]

I love how Hikaru can just recreate the game. This is staggering to mere mortals!

[CarlozN]

This video felt like a class in high school when the teacher put an educational video and then at the end the teacher asks what we learned 😂

[ryanhartmanisgreat]

It's not Hans's play specifically that makes me think he cheated, it's the fact that pros like Magnus, Hikaru, Ding, Fabi, etc ... they can all recite insane lines from memory. You ask them to evaluate a game and they will break it down like a computer in front of you. But in an interview Hans couldn't explain anything. He was fumbling through everything, misexplaining moves, contradicting himself and his prep.

He's playing like he's at the top level but can't explain anything like all the top players can? That's sus.

[thebitterfig]

Dubov is a great actor because he’s memorized all the top lines.

[aabhushanrajthala]

I was showing my chess coach my game. And then this notification showed up, „How to cheat in chess?“ 😭😭

[rankinchess]

I agree 100%. There are at least two people suspected of cheating at each tournament I attend lately. Yet because it is someone providing a tip having witnessed phone usage in the bathroom or game discussion in the hallway, little to nothing is actually done. Secondly, I frankly have noticed that most chess tournament TDs (even at huge events like the Las Vegas Open) have no backbone whatsoever. They made an announcement claiming if you are caught with your phone, you will first get a harsh warning... How is that announcement itself not the first warning, meaning if you are caught with a phone you are subsequently disqualified!??

[Elxroid]

shout out to the one chatter who pretended to know Russian when the sentence hadn't even finished

[paxielle]

I forget that in chess at a grandmasters level it takes a few computer moves to get an advantage . So basically you don't even have to cheat for the whole game just the key moment... And if you are a grandmaster you can get yourself to end game with that advantage...

[smaakjeks]

I have been told by my lawyers that this is unrelated to Niemann

[hirotakasugi]

7 years ago. Now you can print Ear Wigs with flesh tone to easily disguise on the visible part of ear canals especially if you have longer hair. Also difficult to be detected by metal detector, the 3D printed pewpews actually scary because of it.

[TeWzy]

@7:17 You can see the device in his right ear drum. It looks like an regular in the canal hearing aid

[DeepFriedLiver]

“How do I know this? Cause I was looking at the board and they showed the whole game.”

But we were also looking at the board and we got none of that…

[icedlemontea]

Damn, the video aged like a fine wine

[shaunmcisaac]

If your opponent throws out a non natural move that leads to mate in 23, when there's a very obvious move that's +27... yeah....

[berryreading]

Host: "Hans what did you have for breakfast this morning?"

Hans: (Discretely moving right arm and twirling fingers rapidly) "Well that would have really depended on the brand of mattress of which I had been at rest on the previous night" (Now waving both arms and frantically wiggling his fingers above his head) 🤣

[Automatown]

LOL at the subtitles: 0:33 "This is live soft ketchup"

[snaooz]

This was 7 years ago, and another point is that they probably didnt spend the money it would cost, or even had the connections, to get top of the line stuff. Imagine now, with the funds, knowledge and the desire to cheat, I personally think it would be pretty simple to get by some metal detectors..

[ApiolJoe]

Hikaru keeps saying the video is a joke, but if I remember well when Vlad Tkatchiev talked about this video on blitzstream's channel the intent was to show how easy it was to cheat at the game in order to raise awareness and "pressure" organizers to put in more serious anti-cheat measures. The intent was not to make a joke video.

[yotoober]

In fact, Hikaru nails it with this video, even though 7 years old.
AN tiny earpiece would NOT be detectable by a standard wand sweep.
Spy quality earpieces would be 99% plastic undetectable to a metal detector.
The only metal "part" would be the antenna, which would be a short wire less than the thickness of a human hair.
The standard metal detector wand sweep would not have the required sensitivity to pick this up, the less than razor thin wire.
This could also be super glued invisibly to a scalp on a person with thick hair.
High stakes tnmnt Chess is doomed. 😫

[agravphili]

That video actually has very good camerawork besides good acting by the GMs hahaha